A01=Frank J. Miller
Author_Frank J. Miller
Black Curls
Bright Falcon
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Collective Farm Leaders
Contemporary Folklore
Epic Songs
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Folk Poets
Magical Tale
narrative manipulation studies
Negative Analogy
Noviny
Novyi Mir
political mythmaking
pseudofolklore
Russian Folklore
Russian oral tradition
Sea Undulating
socialist realism analysis
Sovetskaia Etnografiia
Soviet Folklore
Soviet Heroes
Soviet Karelia
Soviet propaganda narratives
Soviet Tales
Stalin era
Stalin's Death
Stalinist era folklore production
Stalin’s Death
totalitarian cultural policy
Traditional Folklore
Traditional Folktale
Traditional Lament
Traditional Russian Folklore
Unexpected Happiness
White Enemy
White Sea
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780873326681
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 1991
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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After the First Congress of Soviet Writers in 1934, folklore, like literature, became an instrument of the political propagandist. Folklorists devoted considerable efforts to attending to what purported to be a rebirth of the Russian epic tradition, producing works of pseudofolklore that as often as not featured Joseph Stalin in the hero's role. Miller's account of this curious episode in the history of popular culture and totalitarian politics, and his synopses and translations of "classic" examples of folklore for Stalin, seek to serve as a resource not only for the study of contemporary folklore but also for the political scientist.
Frank J. Miller received his Ph.D. in Russian literature from Indiana University. He is currently Associate Professor of Russian at Columbia University where he is the Coordinator of the Russian Language Program. He is also the author of A Handbook of Russian Verbs, Reading and Speaking about Russian Newspapers, as well as many articles on language and folklore.
